Monday Moanin'

Just a lazy Mon AM today--yeah, right!  Nothing's ever lazy around here.

I see the Taliban has vowed to kill that teen-age activist.  Gee, what a nice group, that Taliban.  Hey, where's our State Department condeming that?  It and its Secretary were very quick to denounce that nutty anti-Islam video trailer on You Tube.  Where's the Bully Pulpit of the President?  He, for two weeks, continued to slam that silly You Tube trailer.  It would seem to me, that to be The Beacon on the Hill, American leaders have to step up and make strong, forceful condemnations of the Taliban and others.  "Making nice" doesn't always work, esp when "making nice" to some people is a sign of weakness.  Check your history....

Here's one of the things that's wrong with government.  The state issued a report that Michigan can save (although I sincerely doubt it; when has gov't saved anything?) $1 Billion by expanding Medicaid coverage.  Wow!  That sounds terrific--until reading the article.  The $1 Billion would be paid, then, by the federal gov't.  So, it's not a savings after all; it's merely a transfer of gov't spending.  And, from where does the gov't, state and federal, get its money...?  Maybe, with such headlines, that's something wrong with newspapers, too.

I heard a lady say that the first installment of the ObamaCare tax will cost the company she works for about $800,000 to $1,000,000--as of now.  Her company employs 600 people.  She feared the ObamaCare costs will devastate her company.  Options?  One, she lamented, is to lay off workers.  Another is to cut pay.  I suppose a third is to go out of business.  I don't know if this is an anomaly or is common.

In the same vein, it appears to large national restaurant chains have announced they will now make many of their current full-time employees part-time to avoid the ObamaCare tax.  And, others, they will fire and hire back, not as employees, but as private contractors, again to avoid the tax.

Hey, what's in that bill you're passing?  We don't know, but let's pass it and find out.

Outrage?  The word--and the emotion--have become trite, overused to the point of becoming meaningless.  Outrage at the murders in Detroit (and other places)?  This AM's newspaper have a couple of more weekend murders in Detroit buried on page six or eight, in a very small paragraph at the bottom of the page.  Why not make each of these the headline every day?  Of course, then that might also trivialize the murders, seeing the same thing daily, leading to a "What else is new? blase attitude.  Something must be done other than "I'm outraged!"  Maybe we could make more and more violent video games, television shows, and movies?